Windows 7 will by default print your documents in 'portrait mode' (vertical orientation), but will let you change the orientation of your text on the sheet of paper, and print in 'landscape mode' (horizontal orientation), which is ideal for multi-column layouts - but not so practical for pure text, since each line will be as long as the rotated piece of paper (since the sheet's height, now rotated counter-clockwise, has become the width of the sheet of paper). This tutorial explains how to change paper orientation when printing documents, and switch back and forth between portrait and landscape.
Change your sheet orientation to landscape or portrait
How to print emails in landscape/portrait (by default) in Outlook? By default, emails are printed in Portrait orientation in Outlook. If there is a wide picture in the email, the picture will be cut automatically when printing. In this condition, you may need to print the email in landscape orientation. Change the option to Landscape to set the printer to landscape mode as a default. Note: If you change the mode through printer settings, the printer will use the mode you choose as the default mode. In other words, if you change the printer to landscape mode all programs will print in landscape mode instead of portrait.
Follow these steps to customize the printing orientation settings in Windows 7: (note that while this tutorial focuses on Windows 7, the same technique can be used in Windows Vista or Windows XP)
You can configure the orientation of the page from the 'Print' dialog itself: press Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut, or use your favorite method of printing (like choosing 'Print' from the File menu, or clicking on the printer icon inside the ribbon or toolbar of your application).
Here is the default Print dialog in Windows 7, the version you see may slightly differ, since applications can use their own variation of the standard Print dialog:
What matters is to find and click on the 'Preferences' button, which gives you access to more advanced printing settings - like orientation of your document's text on the printed sheet of paper.
Once Windows 7 opens the 'Printing Preferences' dialog, make sure that the 'Layout' tab is selected. The first setting you'll see is a dropdown menu labeled 'Orientation' near the top of the tab: click on it to see which paper orientation options your program and printer support.
You will see 'Portrait' (the default, vertical printing), and should also see 'Landscape' as second choice (to print horizontally by rotating the sheet of paper 90 degrees). You may also see an option labeled 'Rotated Landscape', which not only prints horizontally, but also rotates the printout upside down. Make your choice from the Orientation dropdown menu, and click 'OK' to return to the main Print dialog, with your new setting saved.
Now click on the 'OK' button of the Print dialog, or hit Enter on your keyboard: Windows 7 will start printing your document with the orientation you chose.
Warning: the portrait/landscape orientation is a persistent printing setting, which means that Windows 7 will remember it, at least for when you next print from the program you just used. Just remember to follow the steps explained above to change orientation back to portrait mode before printing a large batch of documents with the wrong layout!
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Oct 18,2019 • Filed to: How-Tos • Proven solutions
Trying to find out how to change a PDF page orientation from Landscape to Portrait? Not to worry - we've got you convered. This article guides you through how to use PDFelement to change orientation of PDF files easily in two common scenarios.
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Change Orientation of PDF with Page Box Tool
If you get a PDF document with a mix of landscape and portrait pages, you can use a PDF editor like PDFelement to change PDF pages from portrait to landscape or vice versa with the page box tool to help you make all pages consistent in three simple steps!
Step 1. Open a PDF
Launch PDFelement and open the PDF file you want to edit. Click on the 'Open File...' button in the main interface or drag and drop the PDF file into the program window to open it.
Step 2. Select 'Page Box' Tool
Go to the 'Page' tab and click on the 'Page Boxes' button. In the dialog box that pops up, go to the 'Chang Page Size' section, and choose the 'Custom' option. You can also go to the 'Unit' section to choose Inches, Millimeters or Centimeters as the unit that you'd like to use. Select all pages or a specific range of pages to change the page orientation within your PDF document.
For example, if you want to change the orientation of a PDF page from portrait to landscape without changing the content, you'll need to expand the size of the page.
Step 3. Change the Orientation of PDF
After setting all the appropriate settings, hit the 'OK' button. In the page view, you'll see that the PDF page orientation has been changed to landscape since you entered the width and height of the new page to expand it.
Change Orientation of PDF with Rotation Tool
You can also change orientation of a PDF page directly by rotating PDF pages. In this case, the orientation of the content in the PDF document will be changed as well.
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PDFelement is the best tool for changing PDF pages from portrait to landscape or vice versa. You can get the same full features as programs like Adobe Acrobat DC at much reduced cost. Unlike other PDF editors, PDFelement has a simple interface so you can learn how to use it within a few minutes.
Tips: Why Portrait Orientation is Preferred over Landscape for PDF Pages
Many documents, including eBooks, instructional manuals for software and hardware, project reports, or anything else that is mainly intended to be viewed on screen, are usually only available in vertical or portrait orientation. This way, users can see all content on the screen without zooming into the PDF page.
PDF documents are mainly generated from Word documents or other file types like InDesign, where pages are almost always set up in portrait orientation. Lastly, it has become a common habit for people to read files in portrait orientation rather than landscape orientation because it is easier to read. If you'd also like to know how to change the page orientation of word documents, you can find the solution here.